Carmelo E. Majorana

TL;DR: In this article, a computational analysis of hygro-thermal and mechanical behavior of concrete structures at high temperature is presented, and the evaluation of thermal, hygral and mechanical performance of this material, including damage effects, needs the knowledge of the heat and mass transfer processes.

TL;DR: In this paper, a fully coupled non-linear formulation is designed to predict the behaviour and potential for spalling, of heated concrete structures for fire and nuclear reactor applications, with emphasis placed upon the real processes occurring in concrete during heated based on tests carried out in several major laboratories around Europe as part of the wider HITECO research programme.

TL;DR: Guards for designing a concrete storage module and for its integration into a solar plant, respecting constraints linked both to an adequate solar field operation and to the production system based on ORC, are described as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, a new procedure for structural assessment of tunnel constructions during fire is presented, which consists of two steps: the first one deals with a realistic evaluation of thermal fluxes, both convective and radiative, for the whole tunnel.

TL;DR: In this article, a model to simulate cavitation phenomena connected with such pore water tractions is developed and implemented in a simplified form in a dynamics code for partially saturated porous media, and a case of localisation is studied from the onset of the instability up to the full developed shear band.